What are Seed Treatments?
What is a seed treatment? It is a valuable tool that enables farmers to grow more food while protecting the land and natural resources.
How Does Regenerative Agriculture Work?
Agriculture is continually evolving and will continue to meet the needs of a changing world. Regenerative agriculture is just one strategy that farmers are using.
New Crops Help Us Solve Problems
Plant science – and specifically the science of plant breeding – is one of those tools which can help us overcome challenges as a global community.
From PEI Fields to Consumers’ Plates
There’s a lot of work that goes into the potatoes, turnips and carrots on your dinner plate.
Canadian Foodgrains Bank: Helping People in Need
Stories about people going without food resonate especially with farmers, who look for ways to use their own production to help.
Chicken Farm Takes it Full Circle
Six or seven times a year, about 90,000 freshly-hatched chicks are dropped off at the Martinka broiler chicken operation. The Martinka family has been in the chicken business for 15 years.
Generations Working Together on the Farm
The Keddys started their now 800-acre farm in Nova Scotia’s Annapolis Valley over 40 years ago. Today, their son and his wife Katie manage the farm.
Precision Farming: What is it?
Tech continues changing how farmers raise animals and grow crops.
Meet a Canadian Chicken Farmer
Evesque loves working with these birds and appreciates the opportunity to produce a product consumers want. Evesque produces 50,000 kilograms of chicken every few months.
How do Farmers Protect their Seeds from Insects?
Take a tour of a grain farm to see how farmers protect their seeds from insects.
Harvesting Soybeans To Help A Farmer In Need
On our tour today, we start from the combine seat as Rick harvests soybeans and tells about how he uses auto-steer technology all year long.
Tour a Rotary Milking Parlour
Take a tour of a dairy farm and learn how dairy cows are raised and cared for in Canada.
Growing Better Crops: Carrying on a Tradition of Thousands of Years
Some plant breeding technologies are old, some are comparatively new, but they all help us adapt to challenges – from climate change and food insecurity to nutrition, taste, and food waste.
Ask an Expert: What do you do when pigs get sick?
We asked veterinarian Dr. Matheus Costa, who specializes in swine health at the University of Saskatchewan: what do you do when pigs get sick?
GPS Helps Farmers use Less Pesticides
Climb into a sprayer to see how built-in GPS technology and auto-steer prevent overlapping or over application of pesticides.
Ask a Farmer: What are the different uses for barley?
Farmer, Clinton Monchuk, and future farmer Kaitlyn Monchuk discuss the main uses for barley grown on the Canadian prairies.
Ask an Expert: What do pigs eat?
We asked Denise Beaulieu, an assistant professor on monogastric nutrition at the University of Saskatchewan: What do pigs eat?
A Case of Multiple Egg Options
When shopping for eggs, here’s what you can choose from at the grocery store.
How Watermelons Grow in Canada
Did you know watermelons grow in Canada? Take a tour of a watermelon farm and learn how they are grown and harvested.
How is Canola Oil Made?
How does a bright yellow flower turn into a versatile culinary oil? For canola – one of Canada’s most widely grown crops – it starts with a good squeeze.
